At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, this book brings together the two increasingly popular and important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing.
At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, this book brings together the two incr...
This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By "locating," the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid term "transnational," which vary in relation to the disciplines involved. This kind of historical and geographical "locating" implicitly turns against forms of contemporary transnational euphoria which, inspired by poststructural models of all-encompassing semiospheres, on the one hand, and by visions of the utopian communicative potential of new media like the internet, on the other, see...
This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By "locating," the contributors contextualize histo...
The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution to the fields of literary studies and feminism, since while other volumes have focused on retroactive portrayals of rape in literature, to date none has focused entirely on the subversive work...
The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fic...
This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes-the places and people on the other side of the world-from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the...
This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes-the places and people on the other side o...
Explores the emergence of a post-secular condition of the contemporary world, in which organized, conventional religion has failed politically. This book discusses various Anglophone novels that reflect the multireligious nature of the Indian sub-continent, including such religions and forms of belief as Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, and Christianity.
Explores the emergence of a post-secular condition of the contemporary world, in which organized, conventional religion has failed politically. This b...
This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry's most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures. By locating this argument in the context of interdisciplinary tourism research, the study shows how imaginative literature can extend some of this field's key theoretical concepts while...
This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly...
This text brings into focus Said's politics of reading from his literary criticism in English to his political columns in Arabic. The international contributors look at his intellectual legacies without necessarily identifying themselves with the critical positions these involve.
This text brings into focus Said's politics of reading from his literary criticism in English to his political columns in Arabic. The international co...
This title is about 20th and 21st-century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them.
This title is about 20th and 21st-century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Va...
Combining theoretical reflections and re-interpretations of Gramsci, this collection presents geo-cultural perspectives on the meaning of the subaltern, passive revolution, hegemony, the concept of national-popular culture, in order to chart out a political map of the postcolonial through the central focus on Gramsci.
Combining theoretical reflections and re-interpretations of Gramsci, this collection presents geo-cultural perspectives on the meaning of the subalter...
